Marvin Minsky
Co-signer of the Dartmouth proposal and founder of MIT's AI lab
A founding figure of the field (1927–2016), co-author of the 1955 Dartmouth proposal that coined “artificial intelligence” and co-founder of MIT’s AI laboratory.
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